The baking soda beauty solution

In these tight times, sometimes it pays to turn to older generations for solutions. In “The Black Book of Hollywood Beauty Secrets” by Kym Douglas and Cindy Pearlman (Penguin, $15), Queen Latifah reveals that she uses baking soda to exfoliate. The singer and actress says she rubs her wet face with baking soda to slough off dead skin – a trick she learned from her grandmother. (Also try brushing your teeth with baking soda to brighten them.)

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